A special episode to relive some of the best moments of the tour. From Piazza del Popolo in Rome, up to Piazzale Fellini in Rimini, passing through Portopiccolo the best of “TIM Summer Hits” is proposed tomorrow at 21. 20 on Rai 2. The protagonist, as always, music with the hits of some of the greatest national and international artists. Alternating on stage Alessandra Amoroso, Biagio Antonacci, Blanco, Boomdabash – Annalisa, Michael Bublè, Coez, Elisa, Fedez – Tananai – Mara Sattei, Fabri Fibra – Maurizio Carucci, Ghali, Rocco Hunt – Elettra Lamborghini, Achille Lauro, Lazza, Marracash , Ana Mena, Marco Mengoni, Mika, Tommaso Paradiso, Nuclear Tactical Penguins, Raf, Rhove, Rkomi, Luigi Strangis, Tananai. Rai Radio2 and Radio Italia were the official radios of “TIM Summer Hits”, recounting all the emotions of the evenings and also the curiosities behind the scenes. “TIM Summer Hits” will also be available in video streaming on the Radio2 TV channel on RaiPlay and will also be offered by Radio Italia TV. “TIM Summer Hits” is a Rai Advertising branded content, produced by Friends & Partners in collaboration with Radio Italia.
“Adventure is looking for something that can be beautiful or dangerous, but that is worthwhile to live…”. In this statement by Hugo Pratt there is his whole character, his life and his alter ego. The documentary “Corto Maltese – The double life of Hugo Pratt”, directed by Thierry Thomas and broadcast tomorrow at 19. 15 on Rai 5., goes to the discovery of genius of the Italian designer who with his Corto Maltese has become one of the greatest masters of comics of the twentieth century, a true forerunner of the contemporary current of the Graphic Novel.
Inaugural title of the edition 2018 of the Rossini Opera Festival, “Ricciardo and Zoraide” is the work that Rai Cultura broadcasts tomorrow at 21. 15 on Rai 5. The drama for music in two acts, performed for the first time in Naples at the Teatro San Carlo in 1818, is proposed in the staging by Marshall Pynkoski, Canadian director known to the Italian public for the Mozartian “Lucio Silla” at La Scala in 2015. On the podium of the Rai National Symphony Orchestra, the Rossinian Giacomo Sagripanti. The creative team includes Gerard Gauci for the sets, Michael Gianfrancesco for the costumes, Michelle Ramsay for the lighting and Jeannette Lajeuneusse Zingg for the choreography. The protagonist on stage is a solid cast led by two opera stars such as the tenor Juan Diego Flórez, in the role of Ricciardo, and the soprano Pretty Yende in that of Zoraide. Next to them the tenor Sergey Romanovsky in the role of Agorante; bass Nicola Ulivieri as Ircano; the former students of the Accademia Rossiniana “Alberto Zedda” Victoria Yarovaya (Zomira), Xabier Anduaga (Ernesto), Sofia Mchedlishvili (Fatima), Martiniana Antonie (Elmira), Ruzil Gatin (Zamorre) and the Chorus of the Ventidio Basso Theater instructed by Giovanni Flour. Fifth opera written by the Pesaro-born composer for Naples on a libretto by the Marquis Francesco Berio di Salsa, Ricciardo and Zoraide belongs to the catalog of Rossini’s least performed works. The intricate and daring story of the libretto, inspired by a pseudo-Arianostesque poem by Niccolò Forteguerri (Ricciardetto) set at the time of the Crusades, certainly did not facilitate its dissemination. A drama full of infatuation and jealousy, of plots and imprisonments, which lead, thanks to a valiant rescue, towards a benevolent outcome, however it is distinguished by the many melodic pages of rare beauty, which reinvent a long tradition of chivalrous tales that still today fascinate. Appeared at the festival for the first time in 1990 with Riccardo Chailly on the podium and the staging by Luca Ronconi and Gae Aulenti, Ricciardo and Zoraide offers a dramaturgical vision in this second reading from Pesaro by Marshall Pynkoski of vivid colors as required by the subject. TV directed by Ariella Beddini.
On Rai Storia ‘Italiani’ – on Rai3 ‘Hitler: the long end’ It is Lucio Dalla, great musician and songwriter, the protagonist of “Italiani”, in broadcast tomorrow at 17 on Rai Storia. Born in Bologna on March 4th 1943, in 15 years Lucio Dalla is a self-taught clarinet player, but very promising on the Bolognese jazz scene. In 1964, thanks to Gino Paoli, he made his debut in the world of song, and in 1970 comes the first success with the song “Occhi di ragazza” written for the voice of Gianni Morandi. From that date on, a career full of successes: “March 4 1943”, “Piazza Grande”, “The giant and the girl” and “Anna and Marco”, “The coming year”, “Beware of the wolf”. Passionate musician with great singing skills, Dalla sings with De Gregori, with Ron, and achieves extraordinary success with the album “DallAmeriCaruso”, recorded live at the Village Gate in New York, in 1986, the famous “Caruso” sells over 9 million copies all over the world. The last twenty years of activity see him engaged in many artistic fields: he composes film music for Antonioni, Monicelli, Verdone and Placido; he makes television programs; he takes care of theatrical and opera direction, he teaches advertising techniques and languages at the University of Urbino. In recent years he has been proposing his classics in a jazz version in major Italian theaters, but also in a symphonic version with the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra of London. He died of a heart attack at almost 70 years, on 1 March of 2012 in Switzerland, in Montreux, where he had held his last concert the night before. Dalla’s portrait, full of affection and indelible memories, is drawn by friends, musicians and music critics. The story of the great events, the protagonists, the social phenomena that have marked our collective history, from the twentieth century to today. “La Grande Storia” is back on air from tomorrow at 21. 20 on Rai3. For five episodes, Paolo Mieli will discover the events that have marked world history. C In the first appointment, the last year of the Third Reich is explored: the last eleven months of interminable and decisive combat, which after the landing in Normandy will be still needed by the Allies to defeat Hitler and win World War II in Europe. In June 1944 the Anglo-American troops land on “Fortress Europe” and in a short time liberate Paris, while the Red Army sweepingly advances along the two thousand four hundred kilometers of the eastern front. Nazi Germany is in the grip, many think the war will be over by December. Instead Hitler, from his bunker, orders to resist at all costs, up to the last man. It will therefore take long months of terrible battles and heinous war crimes, fears and hopes, until the decisive conquest of Berlin, in May 1945 . “La Grande Storia” is a program of the Rai Culture and Educational Directorate. Rai Cultura presents, for the cycle of Concerts of the Pauline Chapel, the Folk Trio of Santa Cecilia tomorrow at 18. 20 on Rai 5. Ruggiero Sfregola on violin, Ilona Bàlint on viola, Francesco Di Donna on the cello, perform pieces by Francesco Di Donna, Ernst von Dohnányi, Leone Sinigaglia, Richard Strauss and Zoltán Kodály.
On Rai3 ‘The foreign legion’ – on Rai5 ‘ Patti Smith Electric Poet ‘Born in 1831 by the will of King Louis Philippe, who was to support the Algerian campaign that had just begun, the Foreign Legion is a special body of the French army that enlists volunteers of all nationalities. Whoever becomes a legionary abandons everything and, if necessary, even his identity. The Legion thus becomes a shelter for many adventurers, persecuted politicians of all creeds, criminals on the run. A feature that has made the legionnaire a romantic figure, which has fueled the imagination of so much cinema and so much literature. A “Past and Present”, broadcast tomorrow at 13. 15 on Rai 3 and at 20. 30 on Rai History, Paolo Mieli reconstructs its history together with Professor Ernesto Galli della Loggia. In reality, that of the Foreign Legion is a long and controversial story, full of battles to the death and acts of heroism, but also tainted by serious episodes of violence against civilians and enemies. Resized at the behest of De Gaulle after the involvement of the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment in the coup in Algeria of 1961, the Legion is today a body chosen for the missions of the French army in the world. Summer 1967. 20-year-old Patricia Lee Smith leaves rural New Jersey for Manhattan, the capital of self-reinvention. In her suitcase, Rimbaud’s “Les Illuminations” and a notebook. First meeting, first crush: Robert Mapplethorpe, not yet a photographer, has ambitions for two. In her company, Patti sets out to conquer a New York where she meets Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix. In the corridors of the famous Chelsea Hotel, in contact with Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, she sharpens her pen and finds her way to her. A story that – between archival materials and legendary concerts – Sophie Peyrard and Anne Cutaia tell in the documentary “Patti Smith Electric Poet”, broadcast tomorrow at 24.10 on Rai 5, to retrace the journey of a lover of words who has become a rock icon and one of the greatest artists of our time. After some remarkable poetry readings and a self-produced single, her first concerts at the legendary CBGB reveal a true stage animal. Her pieces impose a writing and singing of a radical novelty. Her voice, her style, her attitude are completely new. In her 1975 her first album Horses, signed by Clive Davis for the Arista label, had the effect of a detonation. Rock transforms forever. Punk at heart, Patti Smith has not succumbed to the lure of stardom and in her fifty-year career she has created her own mythology without ever compromising. She is an icon against the tide: she loves music, photography and literature. Each of her works unfolds a rich, varied universe, that of a poet with multiple influences. Double episode for the series “1590 – 1643. For faith and for the throne. At the origins of modern Europe “, introduced by Alessandro Barbero for the” aCdC “cycle, broadcast tomorrow from 21. 10 on Rai Storia. The protagonist of the first part is Henry IV. He is the new king of France, but he is a Protestant and many are opposed to him being crowned. The king’s troops besiege Paris, reducing the inhabitants to starvation, but he does not have the military strength to defeat the opposition, organized in the Catholic League. It is only after five years of bloody clashes, and after the painful conversion to Catholicism, that Henry can finally be crowned in Chartres Cathedral. Following, the episode “Love, not war”: from 1594 Henry IV is finally the legitimate king of France, and can devote his energies to revive a kingdom devastated by thirty years of civil war, encouraging internal production, facilitating trade and renewing the communication routes. To avoid other conflicts, with the edict of Nantes, Henry IV recognizes every Frenchman, whatever his religion, as a faithful subject of the kingdom. Henry needs an heir to the throne, and after the death of his favorite, Gabrielle d’Estrées, he agrees to marry Maria de ‘Medici, who will give birth to Louis XIII.
